Daiei Gothic Volume 2 - Japanese Ghost Stories Limited Edition Blu-Ray

Japan’s classic ghost stories are brought to the screen by masters of the genre, Tokuzo Tanaka (The Snow Woman) and Kimiyoshi Yasuda (Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare).

In The Demon of Mount Oe, a group of mighty warriors is sent to eliminate a demon who steals women from the imperial capital of Kyoto. On the way, they face a satanic bull, a giant spider and a diabolical witch, but the closer they come to their goal, the more they realise that the demon they’ve been ordered to kill is far more human than they were led to believe.

In The Haunted Castle, a blind monk is killed in a cowardly manner by a samurai lord. When the monk’s sister is ordered to become the lord’s concubine, she commits suicide and transfers her grudge to their black cat, who assumes the human form of one of the lord’s ladies-in-waiting and begins to wreak havoc around the castle court. The lord’s Machiavellian right-hand man (Rokko Toura, Kuroneko) and a young swordsman (Kojiro Hongo, The Bride from Hades) combine forces to solve the mystery and stop the supernatural menace.

In The Ghost of Kasane Swamp a samurai’s wife tries to repay her husband’s debt with her body but is caught in bed with the money lender and they are both murdered by her husband who dumps their bodies in a nearby swamp. Shingoro and Oshiga, the money lender and samurai’s children, find a curse has been passed to them as they each try to recover the money. 

Newly restored in 4K, three more stories from the Daiei studio represent the Japanese ghost film at its most lavish and chilling.

LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES

• New 4K restorations of each film by Radiance Films
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio for each film
• Optional English subtitles for all films
• Newly designed box and booklet artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing by Amber T, Jasper Sharp, and Tom Mes, plus archival writing by Daniel O‚ÄôNeill and original ghost stories¬†The Goblin of Oeyama¬†and¬†The Vampire Cat
• Limited Edition of 4,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
  

THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE

• New interview with period film historian Taichi Kasuga (2025, 19 mins)
• Blade of the Demon Slayer: a visual essay by Tom Mes (2025, 4 mins)
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista

THE HAUNTED CASTLE

• New interview with J-horror filmmaker Mari Asato (2025, 17 mins)
• The strange Case of Ikuko Mori¬†- a visual essay by Tom Mes (2025, 6 mins)
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista

THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP

• New interview with J-horror filmmaker Norio Tsuruta (2025, 18 mins)
• A visual essay by ghost story scholar Zack Davisson (2025, 12 mins)
• Select-scene audio commentary by horror film scholar Lindsay Nelson (2025)
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista